Waste heat
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waste-heat-162-7039660
title:
Waste heat
text:
Waste heat is heat that is produced by a machine, or other process that uses energy, as a byproduct of doing work. All such processes give off some waste heat as a fundamental result of the laws of thermodynamics. Waste heat has lower utility than the original energy source. Sources of waste heat include all manner of human activities, natural systems, and all organisms, for example, incandescent light bulbs get hot, a refrigerator warms the room air, a building gets hot during peak hours, an in
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Heat that is produced by a machine that uses energy, as a byproduct of doing work
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waste_heat
date created:
2006-05-16T06:19:00Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T21:14:20Z
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